Note 360 — Chapter LXXIII · OF SWEIN AND HOLDBÖDI’S RAIDS.
Gilbert Goudie translation
Syllingar, the Scilly Islands. There was an ecclesiastical settlement there in Olaf Tryggvason’s time. It was in the Scilly Islands that he was baptized, and embraced the faith which he afterwards propagated with the strong hand both in his own kingdom and in Orkney.